Landlubber Mike Posted March 3, 2021 #31 Posted March 3, 2021 (edited) Amazing work Tom, wow! You are a master at PE. I didn't think about Future for PE parts. I've just been using medium CA and occasionally white glue (Gator Glue). I recently saw a video on youtube where a 1/700 modeler was using Tamiya X-22 as an adhesive for very small parts. I was going to try that out sometime, but will also try out Future. Thanks for the tip! By the way, I have a 1/48 Walrus in the stash and I hope it comes out half as nice as your 1/200 version! Edited March 3, 2021 by Landlubber Mike Egilman, yvesvidal, lmagna and 4 others 7 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: Hs129B-2 1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)
uncarina Posted March 4, 2021 Author #32 Posted March 4, 2021 Thanks Mike, you are very kind! I have a feeling your Walrus build will be the better of the two! I do love the versatility of using Future (I actually use an equivalent called "Quickshine"), whether for a gloss coat, filling small gaps, as an adhesive, and to simulate glass. There's probably other applications out there! Cheers, Tom Egilman, Canute, popeye the sailor and 3 others 6 Quote
Hubac's Historian Posted March 9, 2021 #33 Posted March 9, 2021 She’s an interesting fish, out of water; I had no idea how full she was below the waterline. The ship looks so sleek in period footage. I will gladly follow along on this one, as you are doing some really nice, clean work. uncarina, lmagna, Canute and 5 others 8 Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
uncarina Posted March 10, 2021 Author #34 Posted March 10, 2021 Your are very kind! I was also amazed at her depth below the waterline, perhaps a testimony to her armor. Not everyone knows she had torpedo tubes down there, and I historical accounts indicate that she fired torpedoes at the Bismarck. Cheers, Tom lmagna, mtaylor, popeye the sailor and 5 others 8 Quote
Hubac's Historian Posted March 10, 2021 #35 Posted March 10, 2021 WWII was such an interesting time period in battleship development; every nation had their version of the super-ship. I read recently that the US Navy is trying to develop an effective projectile range of hundreds of miles, as opposed to the obsolete Iowa class range of 25 miles. If they can achieve that, we may yet see an era of the deluxe super-ship extraordinaire! Old Collingwood, Canute, Egilman and 4 others 7 Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
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